Titus Andronicus Classic Reprint William Shakespeare Books
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The Ist folio text was printed from a copy of the zud quarto, which perhaps was in the library of the theatre, and has some ms. Alterations and additions made to the stage-directions. Here, as elsewhere, the printer of the folio has been very careless as to metre. It is remarkable that the folio contains a whole scene (iii. Ii.) not found in the quartos, but agreeing too closely in style with the main portion of the play to allow of the supposition that it is due to a different author. The scene may have been supplied to the player's copy of the and quarto from a manuscript in their possession.
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Titus Andronicus Classic Reprint William Shakespeare Books
What to say about Shakespeare that has not been said before? With eighty-three years on my back now, I have to confess that a few years ago I decided that I wouldn't die (if possible) without reading his work, although English is my second language. I have therefore, been buying the Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, and I can see why all superlatives are incapable of doing justice to the Bard. I am still plowing through the histories, the tragedies and the comedies. I will get to his sonnets, but I am not sure I will get to the Poems.Product details
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Titus Andronicus Classic Reprint William Shakespeare Books Reviews
Violence on violence. Titus does not disappoint the more blood-thirsty among Shakespeare's readers. Brutally and deceit from beginning to end.
Considering this was likely Shakespeare's first attempt at a tragedy, I found it full of action, easy to read, albeit graphic in terms of its violence. I guess you could say it's a real page turner that should appeal to a modern society accustomed to blood and guts on cinema and television. However, only Shakespeare possesses the gift to paint such horrific happenings in beautiful, magical prose.
Good book, it came in good condition, buy it!
Shakespeare, in his extreme youth, worked in a theater system that could well be compared to the "studio system" of Hollywood film in the Thirties. He made a whole tour of the popular genres when he started out. There was a fad for gore, and Shakespeare seems to have been assigned to do the Elizabethan version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If Tom Stoppard were assigned to write Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, it would probably turn out this badly. Shakespeare's too smart, too talented and he keeps trying to find Meaning or at least Poetry in this shlock. Sometimes he seems to get bored and make fun of the whole genre, overdoing it on purpose. It says a lot that once he was his own man he never wrote another one of these again.
I purchased this particular edition of Titus Andronicus because I was teaching it (undergraduate-level Shakespeare elective), and as I reread it, I was struck by how entertaining it was. This is a fantastic text for the beginning of a Shakespeare class -- it's short, it's outrageous, it's shocking, and, above all else, it's GREAT writing. This is classic revenge tragedy, full of awfulness and bleak realizations about humanity (or the lack thereof in many cases), but also with some incredibly effective black comedy that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it deserves. My students LOVED it.
This particular edition has very good notes on textual issues as well as some early performance history (even if it was published too early to include Julie Taymor's wonderful 1999 film). The excerpts at the end from The Spanish Tragedy, The Jew of Malta, and Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses were also extremely handy for contextual questions.
Quick, Cheap, and easy.
It had been years since I read this and it came up in conversation the other day. Sadly, I had blocked out a lot of the gory details from my memory, so I couldn't say one way or another with any sense of accuracy. So I had to reread it.
This more than met my needs. I guess the 30+ pages or preface and history are great if your teaching from this text. Didn't do much for me as a casual reader though.
I would recommend the form, if not the content. ) So brutal.
I just purchased the edition of this book. Although Jonathan Bate's introductions and notes are first rate, I am very disappointed that all of the pictures that would have been in the printed edition are missing from the edition, having been replaced with a grey box that says, "Image removed-rights not available." Part of the enjoyment of reading the introductions in the Arden Shakespeare series is seeing the pictures of famous productions of Shakespeare, and other illustrations that accompany the text. The missing pictures are the only thing that kept me from giving this book 5 stars!
What to say about Shakespeare that has not been said before? With eighty-three years on my back now, I have to confess that a few years ago I decided that I wouldn't die (if possible) without reading his work, although English is my second language. I have therefore, been buying the Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, and I can see why all superlatives are incapable of doing justice to the Bard. I am still plowing through the histories, the tragedies and the comedies. I will get to his sonnets, but I am not sure I will get to the Poems.
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